Writings & Interviews

Writings

Essay English / Japanese
Memories of Makoto Shinohara / 篠原眞さんとの思い出
June 2026
Online resource
LilyPond Contemporary Notation Cookbook: Snippets and Their Grammars
GitHub, 2024–, regularly updated

A practical guide to contemporary notation in LilyPond.

Review
Review: Andile Khumalo’s Shades of Words
ellipses

Peer Review 1: The Audacity to Say Little

Doctoral dissertation
Between Imagination and Realization: Composers and Metaphysical Spaces
Columbia University, 2015
Lecture
On Tramespace I, a Lecture
The Ear Reader
Essays
Two Writings (A Response and Keynote Speech)
Gaudeamus Muziekweek Seminar on Crisis, Fall 2013

About the seminar

Interview
Interview with the Nieuw Ensemble for the 2011 Season Brochure
Nieuw Ensemble, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, 2011
Program notes
Program notes for the Columbia University Orchestra concerts
Columbia University Orchestra, Seasons 2011/12 and 2012/13
Article
Democratizing Classical Music
Columbia Spectator, December 1, 2011
Article
Reharmonizing Japan
Columbia Spectator, March 24, 2011

Interviews & Features

Interview
5 Questions to Yoshiaki Onishi
by Alexander K. Rothe
I Care If You Listen, 2018
Interview Spanish
An interview
by David Durán Arufe
sul ponticello

The PDF contains the original responses in English. PDF printout of the webpage is here.

Interview French
Composer pour se connaître. Entretien avec Yoshiaki Onishi.
by Ensemble Intercontemporain
Ensemble Intercontemporain, 2015
Interview
“I would like to think that my music offers no wall” (« J’aime penser que ma musique n’a pas de barrière »)
by Charlotte Brouard-Tartarin
Rainy Days Festival 2017, Philharmonie Luxembourg, 2017

With kind authorization from Lydia Rilling and Charlotte Brouard-Tartarin. The published version (in French) appears in the festival’s concert booklet, pp. 222–4.

Feature
Of Sound and Fury
by Adaam James Levin-Areddy
2015

PDF printout. Webpage that originally published this article is no longer available. Author plans to publish the article on another platform TBD.

Feature Dutch
Reflecties van de Jonge Componist Yoshiaki Onishi
by Aad van Nieuwkerk
Muziek van Nu, 2014

(Reflection of the young composer Yoshiaki Onishi)

Interview Dutch / English
jonge componist en dirigent onishi over de filosofie achter zijn muziek
by Aad van Nieuwkerk
VPRO.nl, 2013

(Young composer and conductor Onishi about the philosophy behind his music.) Text in Dutch, interview in English. Currently unavailable.

Podcast
Interview 55 – Yoshiaki Onishi
by Daniel Vezza
Composer Conversations, 2013

Currently unavailable.

Feature Dutch
Een Verkenning van de Ziel
by Marianne Broeder
Gaudeamus Muziekweek 2012, Bijlage VPRO Gids, 2012